The Sport Recife Courier
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Luciano yet — 7.99
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.99 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Sport Recife
Lucas Moura was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Artur falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match26 Sep 2026
Cauly sends Sport Recife past Ceará
It finished 2‑1, and it was Cauly’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sport Recife.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Cauly at his very best
Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sport Recife.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Alan Franco gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Player ratings Lucas Moura runs at them all day
- Squad Wendell dropped after a run of poor form